UN As The World's Weatherman

from the not-what-you-might-expect dept

The UN is involved in plenty of different things around the world, to be sure, but I wasn't expecting them to launch a worldwide weather website. I wonder what the varioud weather websites think about competing with the UN. What's next? Will they start reporting on traffic problems around the world as well? I don't think there's anything wrong with such an offering, but I wonder if there aren't better projects that they can put their resources towards.
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  1. identicon
    dorpus, 9 Dec 2002 @ 2:26pm

    UN Slave Auction site

    The UN has a long history of trafficking in sexual slavery wherever it is deployed. In 1995, UN soldiers impregnated an estimated 14,000 Cambodian girls. In the late 90s, thousands of Bosnian girls were sold into sexual slavery through UN slave brokers. They should put up a USLave.com site.

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